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This program is made
possible by the giving
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of the God called partners
of Renner Ministries.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and today I'm standing
in the interior of St.
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Isaac's Cathedral in
St. Petersburg, Russia.
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I wish I could just pick you up
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and transport you to
this place with me today
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because it is difficult to really explain
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how beautiful it is.
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You have to see it with your own eyes.
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This cathedral is built
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of more than 300,000 tons
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of materials: precious stones like malachite,
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16 tons of it: deep blue lapis -
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1100 pounds of it: 20 different kinds
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of marble from all over
Russia and all over Europe.
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And more than 881 pounds
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of gold are used in the ornamentation
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and the decorations of this cathedral,
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which was the Central Cathedral of the Russian empire
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for nearly half a century.
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This room is so big it could
accommodate 14,000 people
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in its 116,000 square
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feet: my friend,
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it is just magnificent.
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But the interiors of this building are really nothing
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in comparison to your spiritual interiors and mine.
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In fact, the Bible says that what God did
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inside us in the new
birth was so wonderful
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that when he was finished, he
sealed us with the Holy Spirit
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as his stamp of approval.
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We read about that in Ephesians 1:13,
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where the Bible says God sealed us
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with the spirit of promise.
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It was God's way of saying,
what I've done in you is
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so magnificent
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I'm going to stamp you with
my own seal of approval.
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Our spiritual interiors
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are simply magnificent.
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I really like St. Isaac's Cathedral.
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I personally believe it is
the most lavishly decorated
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cathedral anywhere in the world.
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And believe me, I've
seen a lot of cathedrals,
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but none compared to this.
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But even this is very dim
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compared to what is inside
me and what is inside you.
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And that is what I want to
talk to you about today.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the word
is the anchor in uncertain
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times and doctrine
doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens,
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and today I'm gonna talk
to you about the very fact
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that you are God's masterpiece.
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You might say What? I'm a
masterpiece. That's right.
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That's exactly what the Bible says in Ephesians
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2:10.
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It's gonna be great. So stay
with me all the way to the end
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of the program today,
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but I'm offering you my brand new series,
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which is called, You are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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If you've been badgering
yourself, stop it.
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It doesn't matter who you used to be.
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What matters is who you are now
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and now you have become the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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You just need a revelation
of who God has made you
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to be: my friend,
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you really are a walking sanctuary.
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God lives inside you.
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to the end of your life.
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You just need to know how to stay on fire,
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But hey, reach for your Bible.
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I have my Bible
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and today we're going to return to Ephesians 2,
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and today I'm gonna show you
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that you really are God's masterpiece.
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But we're going to return
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to Ephesians 2:1,
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and quickly review the first 3 verses.
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And when you come to Ephesians 2:1,
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the apostle Paul is showing how utterly impossible it was
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for any of us to get saved if
God himself did not start the
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process to bring us to Christ.
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This is why Jesus said in John 6:44, No man can come
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to the Father except the spirit draw him.
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It is a supernatural work of
God for a person to get saved.
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We are told in Ephesians 5:
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14, that those
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that are spiritually lost
are in the sleep of death
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until Christ nudges them, shines on them
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and begins to wake them up and
praise God, he shined on me
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and he shined on you
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and the Spirit brought us
to a place of salvation.
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But when you understand Ephesians 2,
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you really see how utterly impossible it is for anybody
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to get saved by themselves.
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Before the grace of God touches us,
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we are spiritually dead.
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That is what the Bible says in Ephesians
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2:1.
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Let's look at it together:
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And you hath he quickened
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who were dead in trespasses and sins.
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I want to say again that if
you're reading from the King
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James version, the words hath quickened
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or italicized, which means they were supplied
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by the translators
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and they are not in the Greek text. The Greek simply says,
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And you who were dead in trespasses
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and sins: it begins very abruptly describing our condition
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and just like a dead person
does not have the ability
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to respond when a person is dead in sin,
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they can't find God,
they do not desire God.
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Nothing in them responds to God,
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and this is why salvation
is such a miracle.
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Salvation occurs because
God comes to you, not
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because you go to God.
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It is the work of grace to wake you up
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and to bring you to Christ.
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Then when you come to verse 2, it says,
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Wherein in time passed, you walked according to the course
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of this world, according to the prince of the power
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of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children
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of disobedience. Verse 3:
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among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in
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the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
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and of the mind and whereby
nature, the children
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of wrath even as others.
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Well, today I want to cover the very end of verse 3,
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a little better than we did yesterday
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because we were moving so fast.
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Let's look at verse 3 again.
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He says, among whom also we
all had our conversation in
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times past.
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In this verse, Paul says, we
were all a part of the gang,
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and this is important
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because there's always someone
who says, well, I was bad,
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but I wasn't that bad.
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But Paul here says,
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among whom we all also had
our conversation in times
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past. You may not realize how bad you were
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before you came to Christ, my friend,
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you were spiritually dead
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and in fact, you were so spiritually dead,
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this verse says, you were dominated by what?
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By the lust of the flesh
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and you fulfilled the desires
of the flesh and of the mind
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and were by nature the children of wrath even as others.
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That word nature, in Greek is the word, phusus.
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Now, I'm gonna read to
you directly from my notes
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because I want you to really understand
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what this word nature means.
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It is the Greek word phusus,
which describes nature
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or an inherent nature, an inborn instinct
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or something that you received by birth:
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which means sin is not something you are taught to do.
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You sin because you are born a sinner.
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Yesterday I gave the illustration that when I was a boy,
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my father had an aquarium and he had guppies, little fish,
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and from time to time those guppies would give birth
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to new fish, and it was amazing
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when I saw those little tiny
guppies being born, no one had
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to give them swimming lessons,
they just immediately begin
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to swim like fish.
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You know why? Because they are fish.
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No one has to teach a fish to swim
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because it is the nature
of a fish to swim.
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Likewise, when people are born, no one has
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to give them sing lessons
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because they are born with a nature of sin that is precisely
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what this verse says,
and by nature they sin.
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Now the verse goes on to say,
we were by nature the children
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of wrath.
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What in the world does that mean?
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Well, the word wrath is a very terrible word.
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It is that we record orge,
which describes something
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so bent, so twisted
that it does not deserve
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to exist: something so warped
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that it deserves to be destroyed.
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Which means mankind without
God is unable to fix himself,
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he cannot reform himself.
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Mankind because of sin
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resident in him has become twisted, has become bent,
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has become warped, is not
reformable, is not fixable.
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In fact, mankind without the help
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of God simply deserves to be eliminated.
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But God got involved and that's what the next verse says:
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but God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith,
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he hath loved us.
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In verse 4, Paul begins with the word - but, and this word
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but in verse 4 is very, very important
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because it is the Greek word de.
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This word de, is an emphatic break in the text
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to emphasize the next statement. In verse 1, verse 2
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and verse 3, Paul has been describing our lost,
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unsaved condition.
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We were spiritually dead.
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We could not be fixed,
we could not be reformed.
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There was nothing about us.
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It could be amended or made
better, but God got involved.
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And now in verse 4, Paul uses the Greek word de,
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but it's almost like a pause in the text
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to let everyone get ready for
the good news they're about
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to hear - but - God
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who is rich in mercy.
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Well, how much mercy does God have?
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This word rich is the Greek word, plousios.
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The word plousios, is one
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of the most wonderful words in the New Testament.
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This word rich, the Greek word plousios, describes wealth
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so great, it cannot be tabulated.
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It is abundant wealth, vast wealth,
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extreme riches, incredible abundance,
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magnificent opulence,
extravagant lavishness.
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It is the very word used by Plato
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to say no one was richer than
the legendary King Midas.
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And now this word is used
to describe God as being one
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who is rich in mercy.
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How much mercy does God have?
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so much mercy,
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it may be that God himself does not know the extent
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of his mercy.
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He can't tabulate it. It is
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It is incalculable riches when it comes
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to the issue of mercy.
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Or one expositor says - God is filthy,
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stinking rich when it comes to the issue of mercy.
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He is rich beyond
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how much mercy he has,
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and that's good news for me and my friend,
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that is really good news for you.
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Praise God that he is rich in mercy.
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Well, what does the word mercy mean?
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The word mercy is the Greek word eleos.
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It can be translated pity.
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but God doesn't just have pity on us,
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God has compassion.
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this word mercy, here translated from the Greek word, eleos,
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describes a gut wrenching emotion
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that compels one to action.
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and we read in John 3:16, that God
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so loved the world.
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He so loved the world
that he gave his only son
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for our salvation.
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God didn't just look at us and
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Oh, what am I gonna do about them?
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That is what mercy does,
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and that's what we find in this verse.
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God did not just sit in heaven
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and say, oh, mankind is so flawed, so defective, so warped,
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so bent, so twisted, so dead in sin.
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to do something about it.
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God was moved to action
to do something for me
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and to do something for you.
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He sent Jesus into the world to initiate
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what we could not initiate by ourselves.
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Wow. In fact, it says,
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but God who is rich in
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The word great, is the word, polus.
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because this word polus describes
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something that is enormous,
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something that is incalculable.
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The word love is the Greek word agape.
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Oh, thank God for the agape love of God.
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The word agape depicts a divine love that gives and gives
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and gives, even if it is
never responded to, thanked
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or acknowledged.
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God is the initiator of this love,
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and it does not depend on us.
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God is the one who initiates.
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It is a divine love that initiates
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and moves toward a recipient.
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A love so profound that it knows no limits
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or boundaries in how far wide, high
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or deep it will go to show
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It is a sacrificial love
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that moves the lover to action.
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And when you come, to Ephesians 2:
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4: it literally means,
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but God who is filthy,
stinking rich when it comes to
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how much mercy he has was
moved to action in order
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to satisfy his incalculable,
profound love that he had
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for me and he had for you; because we couldn't fix ourself,
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God went into action to do for us
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what we could not do by ourselves.
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We were spiritually dead.
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We didn't even know we needed
help, but we needed help.
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So God was moved to action
to do something for us.
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even when we were dead in sins: dead - nekros,
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we were not thinking
about God seeking God,
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we were spiritually dead.
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He has quickened us together with Christ,
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and that's why he adds these words, by grace you are saved.
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God was the initiator
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and my friends, what we have
received from God is a result
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of the grace of God which
God put forth on our behalf.
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that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches
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of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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The word exceeding, is a Greek word, huperballo.
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Listen to this. It's a compound of the word huper,
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which describes something
that is excessive
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or something that is beyond,
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and the word ballo, which means to throw something, like
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to throw a ball or to throw a rock,
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but when you compound
the two words together,
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it forms a Greek word, huperballo, which depicts something
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that is above and beyond anything that is normal: something
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that is exceeding or surpassing.
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It pictures an archer who
aims his arrow at the target
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but shoots way over the top.
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It depicts something beyond the range
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of anything considered normal,
something unparalleled.
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God wanted to demonstrate
his unparalleled riches
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of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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God said, I'm going to
really show off my goodness
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in the lives of these people who began
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as being spiritually dead.
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I'm gonna wake 'em up.
I'm gonna make them new.
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I'm gonna show off my benevolence.
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In fact, in this verse,
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it talks about his grace in his kindness.
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That word kindness, the Greek word which really
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describes benevolence.
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God wanted to demonstrate his benevolence.
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And in fact, when the verse
says that he might show,
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the word show means to
show off, to demonstrate,
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to openly display, to put
on a big demonstration.
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God wants you and me to
be trophies of his grace.
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He wants to show off his
exceeding, surpassing,
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unbelievable, unimaginable
riches of grace,
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his benevolence that he
has shown to our lives.
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Wow. That's why when you come to verse 8, Paul goes on
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to say - For by grace are you saved through faith
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and not that of yourselves.
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It is the gift of God. Hmm, from beginning to end,
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it is a work of grace, which God has done on our behalf.
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That's why verse 9 says, not
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of works lest any man should boast.
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But look at verse 10 - For we
are his workmanship created
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in Christ Jesus, unto good works, which God hath
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before ordained that we should walk in them.
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The word workmanship, my friend, is the Greek word, poiema.
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The word poiema describes a product, a thing made, something
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that is marvelous.
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It is exactly the word for a masterpiece -
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this word poiema. This word poiema, is
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where you get the word for a poem.
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It's where you have the word puetis the word for a poet: one
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who has a creative flair, one
who has an artistic ability,
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one who is able to write
something that is masterful
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or to create a piece of art
that is just unimaginable.
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That is the word that
is used in this verse;
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which means, when God saved me,
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and when God saved you,
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he put forth his best creative efforts
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to turn us into something magnificent:
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something magnificent.
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In fact, the verse goes on to
say - created in Christ Jesus.
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And the word created, describes the creation
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of something from nothing: not something renewed
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or refashioned with old materials,
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but something brand
spanking new, never existing
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before, not enhanced, not
improved, not repaired,
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not restored, but something newly created
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and original.
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When the Bible says we
are God's workmanship,
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it literally means we are God's masterpiece -
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masterpiece. What an amazing thing God did
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with me and with you.
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We were spiritually dead - dead -
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and God took dead people,
quickened them with Christ,
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woke them up from spiritual death,
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gave them the Holy Spirit,
created them brand new.
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He had to start all over again
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because there was nothing that
could be repaired or fixed.
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We were created brand new in Christ Jesus.
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And today we are God's workmanship,
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which means we are God's masterpiece.
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We are a masterpiece of the grace of God.
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What he did in us,
according to verse seven,
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is unparalleled.
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It surpasses anything that
anyone could ever imagine.
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God showed his kindness, his benevolence
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to us in Christ when he made us brand
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spanking new.
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We are trophies of the grace of God.
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And that's not all
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because 1 Corinthians 6:19 says,
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then he gave us the Holy Spirit,
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and today we are the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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God actually lives inside us.
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What a work God has done in our lives.
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I'll be back in just a moment
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Do you really know what
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you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. My friend,
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you really are the dwelling place for the spirit of God,
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and that is amazing and powerful.
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temple of the Holy Spirit.
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There is nothing cheap about you.
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When God quickened you together with Christ,
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He made you brand spanking new.
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And the Bible tells us in Ephesians 2:10,
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that you are God's masterpiece.
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That's who you are.
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You are so marvelously made
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that God decided he would move into you.
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You became the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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And that's what I'm teaching you this week,
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and I want you to have this series,
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which is called You are the
Temple of the Holy Spirit.
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It's 10-parts. It comes in multiple formats.
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You need to know who God has made you to be.
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You're not who you used to be anymore.
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You now have become the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Order yours today at renner.org,
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and remember that it comes with a study guide
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and we're also offering you my book,
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which is called, A Life Ablaze.
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I wrote this book
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because I know people want to stay on fire for Jesus
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to the end of their life,
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but sometimes people feel
like they've lost their fire.
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Well, how do you rekindle it?
How do you regain your fire?
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That's why I wrote this book.
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This book will help you regain the fire
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so you can burn like an inferno to the end of your life.
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And I want you to order your copy today
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and remember that if you need
prayer, we're here for you
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and we want to pray with you
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to send us your email or call us.
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But Father, I thank you that
we're not who we used to be.
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We're no longer spiritually dead.
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We are spiritually alive,
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and you've turned us
into your masterpiece.
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We are trophies of grace.
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Help us to embrace it and celebrate it.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, it says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there's power"
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and I'll see you in the next program.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening,
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made
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